This week, developments in the disparate fields of arts and law had something in common according to critics: the undue appropriation of Aboriginal voices by non-Aboriginal people. In the first case, we find Tony Merchant, a controversial lawyer attempting to sue Canada on behalf of thousands of people who feel they’ve been unfairly denied the […]
As of 12:32pm AEDT “today” in Australia, the predominantly-Aboriginal town of Cherbourg (pop’n 1,241) is one of many places in Queensland now “cut off by flooding, and could be isolated for more than 24 hours,” reports ABC News: [South Burnett Regional Council] Mayor David Carter says it is proving difficult to get supplies to flooded […]
Brief piece of sad news in yesterday’s The Australian: The natural disaster claimed another victim yesterday when a young woman drowned in a flooded creek at the Cherbourg Aboriginal community, inland from Gympie. The woman, in her 20s, was the 11th person to die as a result of the state’s floods in the past fortnight. […]
According to this map from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the small Aboriginal settlement of Woorabinda in central Queensland has been “declared a disaster zone due to the flooding” that’s devastated huge portions of the state. [cetsEmbedGmap src=http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=210606325855659952999.000498e8d8ebf782c3d80&ll=-25.595241,149.23605&spn=4.919548,6.224098&source=embed width=450 height=425 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no] Woorabinda, pop’n 928, is about 170 km southwest of Rockhampton, the Queensland […]
According to the Inside Film website, Australia feature film ‘Mad Bastards‘ will make its U.S. premiere at this year’s Sundance film festival on Jan. 18. Directed by first-timer Brendan Fletcher (a self-described “white guy from Sydney”), the movie was shot on location in Western Australia with the strong involvement of local Aboriginal people, including a […]
